Querida Familia e Amigos!
Oi! Como esta! Ah! I cannot believe I have only been in the MTC for sixteen days, it seriously feel like I have been here forever! Well, here is the first bit of exciting news for this week...Last sunday one of our Sister Training Leaders had finished her six weeks in the MTC and was reassigned to Colorado, in our zone or branch our branch president does this interesting thing were the Sister Training Leaders are staggered every two weeks, so that there is always a senior sister training leader. Guess who the new sister training leader is for the next four weeks! Yes, that would be me! I am the new sister training leader for the 52nd Branch in the MTC and oh my do I feel overwhelmed! All of my spare time now goes to visiting all of the sisters in our branch, reporting to the Branch Presidency, and just helping the girls with anything they need, and now I have meetings early on Sunday morning! But, I am super appreciative of this calling and I know that the Lord will work through me to help these girls. I just feel so blessed that I get to spend my time helping and serving others these girls. We got new girls this week and it was so exciting! Sister Kron is my sister training leader companion, so we get to spend a lot of time together and she is just such an inspiration to me! She works so hard and just loves the girls so much! She is teaching me so much about how to be a leader, but also just how to love the people you are serving.
This week has been so great and it has flown by so quickly! My companionship with Sister Haight and Sister Goodwin is going so well! Our Portuguese is definitely increasing, we have so much fun together, and we are really working hard when we need to! Our lessons keep improving with our investigators and I am really coming to love them and appreciate what they bring to our trio! Everyone says trios are so difficult, but I think they are the best kept secret ever! It´s so great to have three different, unique personalities that can offer ideas and can help in a lesson! We are kind of on an off week for our investigators, we are teaching our teachers who are pretending to be investigators, so it is great practice for teaching, but I do not feel as strongly motivated to teach. We do start teaching actual members of investigators tonight in TRC which will be crazy and super scary! We are teaching real people who have questions and concerns and we have to speak Portuguese the whole time!
Also this last week my teachers had me teach alone just to see if I could do it. I felt so queasy and sick! They also challenged me to do it without notes and IT WAS A COMPLETE MIRACLE THAT I SURVIVED! It was 100 percent the Spirit working through me, but I actually did it! I taught a lesson by myself to investigators and I didn´t use notes at all! It is such a testimony to me that the Lord will bless you when you work hard, study hard, and are EXACTLY OBEDIENT! We also got to go to the Temple last week on Pday and it was so wonderful! The Spirit was so strong and I felt so much peace. The new video is super good too, so I encourage all family members to go and do a session, so you can see it! There is just so much more emotion! I loved it!
I met with my teacher this week and he said I was progressing really well. I was grateful for his kind compliment because I have been working so hard to get the language down! It is still so stressful to speak in Portuguese when everything is so much easier in English, but i have faith that the Lord knew what he was doing when he had me learn a language!
This last week, we sang Lead Kindly Light in the MTC choir at Tuesday night´s devotional and guess who spoke! It was Neil L. Anderson! We are so blessed to have apostles come and speak to us while we are at the MTC! I felt the Spirit so incredibly strongly when we got up to sing that song and the devotional was broadcast to all the other MTC´s around the world, how amazing! Elder Anderson talked about how we need to love what we sacrifice for and sacrifice for what we love. That makes so much sense especially with a mission! It started storming outside, so we had to run in a huge raining downpour back to the MTC from the marriot center, it was probably one of my favorite moments since coming to the MTC!
I am already on my third week and I only have three more weeks! The time is going so quickly and I seriously feel like I have been gone forever, even though I haven´t been gone that long! In the Book of Mormon I am already to ALMA! Isn´t that a miracle! I have no idea how I have read so quickly, but again the Lord is here helping me to accomplish this goal! I can´t believe that I spend between fourteen and sixteen hours a day studying the gospel, Portuguese, and learning how to teach! I just feel like I have come into my own and that I am my best self as a missionary. I am working harder than ever before, I am more dedicated and disciplined, and I just gobble it all up! It´s seriously been amazing! I pray this feeling just stays with me my whole mission!
Thank you again for everything and I am so grateful for the support and love! Please write dear elders or just letters, I do love getting mail! One of the highlights of my day!
Com muito amor,
Sister Brotherson
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